I joined the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in August 2020. I came to UTK from Trinity College Dublin, in Ireland, where I completed a Marie Curie Sklodowska Individual Fellowship with Prof. Jane Stout. This was my third postdoctoral research experience: I participated in a USDA NIFA grant at Cornell University with Prof. Bryan Danforth, and an NSF DMS grant at Penn State University with Prof. Kat Shea. I have also worked at the University of Queensland in the Spatial Ecology Lab with Prof. Yvonne Buckley.
Research questions in my lab include:
How do we identify win-win scenarios between conservation and agriculture?
How do networks of interactions form between plants and pollinators?
What are the patterns and processes that operate on these networks?
Can we manipulate and manage complex networks of species interactions?
Can we quantify diffuse coevolution acting on the interactions between plants and pollinators?
